The Bills hadnt had a winning season since 2004. Yet why do i still feel disappointed. Probably the fact that we should have been much, much better. Houston, miami, denver and kc were all games that we should have won but didnt for one reason or another. Whether it be bad refering or mental errors or poor qb play. Than defeating greenbay we went ahead and lost to oakland. Than Doug Marrone got up and left and in came rex ryan, the former coach of the jets who we beat badly 3 times in a row. So now i am left here like usual thinking about next year.
Usually when i think about next year the first thing i think about is the draft. But we dont have a first round pick because we traded it for sammy watkins. Who honestly didnt play bad but when every body else below you played as good or better it makes the trade look not so good. Especially odell beckham, who would have been available for the bills in there original spot to draft. All he did was out catch sammy in 4 less games. So now looking at the team, like usual we need a qb. At least someone to give ej some competition, cause damn compared to ej, orton looked like john elway. But the best guy we will be able to get in the draft is bryce petty or sean mannion, whom neither looked that good in the senior bowl. So the other options are free agency and trades. Well the free agent class is super strong, with mark sanchez being the best available. Sarcasm if you didnt get that. I mean are we really going to go for a sanchez rex reunion, i would lose my mind. So trade is probably the best option. But who is out there. Some people have said ryan mallet, or garapollo or nick foles, but the most popular is jay cutler. Now while i actually like cutler and think the biggest part of his issues is the bears o line being awful, he got sacked 7 times in one game, i think a similar person is a better idea. Aaron kromer was the former bears o coordinator, and didnt have too much success with cutler. But he did have some with a different qb. His name is josh mccown and my thinking is he is either going to be dropped or traded by tampa bay seeing as they have the no1 pick and are likely to use it on a qb and not want there backup making a lot of money. Mcown did very well under kromer which is how he got that very large contract. Now do i think he is the future, of course not, but he is 100 times better than what we got right now.
Speaking of free agency let me touch on that. We have a bunch of people hitting the market this year. With the biggest being cj, dareus, hughes,spikes. Now i like spikes and for the right price we should bring him back. Same with dareus, though i think we should take a swing at suh first, though i doubt he would want to come to buffalo, but than again that is what i thought about mario. But i dont think we should retain hughes. Im guessing under rex we will be going back to the 3-4 while we played 4-3 last year. Hughes is a great defensive end, but not a great olb which is what he would have to play some in rexs system. We will also need to sign a 3rd defensive tackle as well and might wanna use the money saved from hughes on that. How i see it is this, with spikes, bradham, brown, alonso coming back and lawson, plus some people we might drafy, hughes would not be worth it unless we get him back for very cheap. Next up is cj. Again let him walk. Too injury prone, we still got jackson and brown and it has been proved many times that you can find a solid running back late in the draft, so i say draft someone and keep what you got, sorry cj. The only other rb i would be willing to sign is lynch. Though he is not a free agent, the thought is that he will be a salary cap cur from the seahawks, and who better to use in greg romans ground and pound system than beast mode. Though again i doubt he would want to make a comeback to buffalo.
Either way unless we get a qb next year will be more of the same, a great defense and a horrid offense. With what looks like an easier schelduel though i can see the bills goin 9-7 once again, which it would be nice to have 2 winning seasons in a row.
